Experimentation with narrative techniques and modes of writing in ‘Abd al‐Rahman Munif's Mudun al‐milh: al‐tih

N. Al-Mousa
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In several places in his book Al-Kdtib wa-al-manfd (The Writer and Exile), 'Abd al-Rahman Munif asserts his preoccupation with producing a national tradition of the novel. Such a preoccupation involves a great deal of experimentation with new narrative techniques and modes of writing inspired by the author's concern with drawing on the native literary heritage as well as his characteristic interest in basing his narrative on dramatizing national human concerns in a specific historical period. Munif s firm belief that the Arabic novel should be a unique literary product whose composition and shape are determined by its cultural milieu coincides with Q. D. Leavis's views on the distinctive character of the English novel. In an article entitled 'The Englishness of the English Novel', Leavis argues:
阿卜杜勒·阿尔-拉赫曼·穆尼夫的《Mudun al - milh: al - tih》中叙事技巧和写作模式的实验
在他的《作家与流亡者》(Al-Kdtib wa-al-manfd)一书的几个地方,阿卜杜勒·拉赫曼·穆尼夫(Abd al-Rahman Munif)断言,他专注于创造一种民族传统的小说。这种专注涉及对新的叙事技巧和写作模式的大量实验,灵感来自作者对借鉴本土文学遗产的关注,以及他对将特定历史时期的民族人文问题戏剧化的叙事的独特兴趣。穆尼夫坚信阿拉伯小说是一种独特的文学产物,其构成和形态是由其文化环境决定的,这与里维斯对英国小说独特性的看法不谋而合。在一篇名为《英国小说的英国性》的文章中,里维斯认为:
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